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Mark Leonard (Ed.)

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Europe's future is being debated as never before. Enlargement, the 'democratic deficit', new security challenges and a changing global economy all mean that the EU must reform. This collection provides the definitive guide to the new debate about the principles which should guide it.

Contributions to the debate from German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Premier Giuliano Amato, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine and Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh show that European governments are grappling with the central questions of European reform and legitimacy in a new way.

Leading thinkers including Anthony Giddens, Jan Zielonka, Alison Cottrell, Ben Hall and Mark Leonard look at what a new case for Europe will mean in practice - in economics, Europe's global role, institutional reform and democratisation.

This project was kindly supported by BSMG Worldwide

viii+112pp, November 2000.

Contents

1. Mark Leonard: Introduction "The New Case for Europe"

Section One

Debating Europe's Future: the Governmental Debate

2. Joschka Fischer: "From Confederacy to Federation – Thoughts on the Finality of European Integration"

3. Giuliano Amato: "A Design for Europe"

4. Tony Blair: "A Larger, Stronger Democratic Europe"

5. Anna Lindh: "The Future EU - A Democratic Network Close to the Citizens"

6. Hubert Védrine: "Letter to Joschka Fischer"

Section Two

Europe's Reform Challenges: the Future Shape of the Debate

7. Allison Cottrell: "Economic Governance in Europe"

8. Ben Hall: "Enlargement, Efficiency and Flexibility"

9. Anthony Giddens: "A Third Way for the European Union?"

10. Mark Leonard: "Democracy and Legitimacy in Network Europe"

11. Jan Zielonka: "Should Europe become a state?"

Europe's future is being debated as never before. Enlargement, the 'democratic deficit', new security challenges and a changing global economy all mean that the EU must reform. This collection provides the definitive guide to the new debate about the principles which should guide it.

The first part of the book brings together many of the most important recent governmental speeches on Europe's future - including German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer's speech which sparked this new round of debate. The contributions of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian Premier Giuliano Amato, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine and a specially written chapter by Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh show how, across Europe, governments are grappling with the central questions of European reform and legitimacy, and are doing so by departing from the old federalist model.

The second section sees leading academics, policy-makers and writers address what this new approach to European reform will mean in specific policy areas. Anthony Giddens asks how European reform can take account of globalisation, Jan Zielonka looks at Europe's global role and internal security, Alison Cottrell presents a new model for dynamic economic governance and Ben Hall proposes an agenda for effective institutional reform. Editor Mark Leonard presents a new pro-European vision of a "network Europe" and shows how today's pro-Europeans must win the trust of citizens and lay the ghosts of sceptic nightmares.

"Its essence is the patriotic and pragmatic case for being both pro-European and pro reform in Europe" Peter Mandelson
"The Europe of Nice is a building site waiting for new master builders."